Grep multiline pattern

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Mar 15, 202639781 views

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How do I search for a phrase over multiple lines? E.g. Lets have the phrase "my ice tea" then it may be wrapped in text files: grep will not match since there is a newline in between. How do I match those? Another multiline pattern would be I know the easiest way I do ATM is just grep for one part …

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as js skdfh dfh djh sf my
ice tea.

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You could install (available in most distro repositories) - which is grep using the pcre library, which does "Perl Compatible Regular Expressions". It has a command line option which allows you to do multiline searches - from the man page: "The outp…

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